Papwa Sewgolum (Reading copy) - Nicholson, Christopher

Papwa Sewgolum acquired his first golf 'club', a roughly hewn wooden stick, when he was just seven years old, and spent hours hitting an old gold ball into a tin can buried in his back yard.

From these humble beginnings the impoverished and illiterate Papwa came to dominate South African ' non-white' golf in the 1950s and 1960s. The government's apartheid policies meant he was barred from playing in white tournaments and his remarkable talent was denied recognition. Then Graham Wulff, inventor of Oil of Olay, personally flew him to Europe where Papwa won the Prestigious Dutch Open in 1959 (and again in 1960 and 1964).

Softcover. English. Wits University Press. 2005. 196 pp. ISBN: 9781868144112. In fair condition, some parts marked and underliend in pen! Book No: 2000478